Student Debt Cancellation Is Extremely Unfair. Here Are 10 Reasons Why.
Posted by freedomforall 10 months, 3 weeks ago to Politics
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It is unfair to those who sacrificed to pay off their student loans and it’s unfair to those who foot the bill.
It is an upward transfer of wealth. The plumber pays for someone else’s college education.
It encourages going to college when there might be better choices such as learning a trade. And It creates incentive to take on new student loans.
It is blatant election year bribe to college students and college graduates.
It creates creates a moral hazard for college administrators to sell useless degrees creating another overhang of new student debt.
It creates a moral hazard for students who might feel that their debt should be forgiven in the future
It subsidizes poor decision-making such as majoring in useless degrees including gender studies, anthropology, archeology, art history, music, culinary arts, fashion design, philosophy, etc.
The president has no power to forgive student loans. Doing so creates another precedent for presidential rule by decree. This is too big a financial decision not to involve Congress. The current student loan program was authorized by Congress and contains no such authority to the president.
Biden is openly flouting the Supreme court, another dangerous precedent.
Free money is highly inflationary.
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Addendum
I left out a key point. . As a Senator Biden sponsored a law that made it so student debt could not be discharged in bankruptcy.
Then he was buying donations from the big banks who run their credit card operations out of Delaware. Now he is buying votes."
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That's why I have called the lying sack of fertilzer Buydem since 2020.
Take him and all his administration staff to Gitmo for an interview. Then a military trial for treason and public execution of all the guilty, and a reversal of everything done by the tyrannical scum since 2000.
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It is unfair to those who sacrificed to pay off their student loans and it’s unfair to those who foot the bill.
It is an upward transfer of wealth. The plumber pays for someone else’s college education.
It encourages going to college when there might be better choices such as learning a trade. And It creates incentive to take on new student loans.
It is blatant election year bribe to college students and college graduates.
It creates creates a moral hazard for college administrators to sell useless degrees creating another overhang of new student debt.
It creates a moral hazard for students who might feel that their debt should be forgiven in the future
It subsidizes poor decision-making such as majoring in useless degrees including gender studies, anthropology, archeology, art history, music, culinary arts, fashion design, philosophy, etc.
The president has no power to forgive student loans. Doing so creates another precedent for presidential rule by decree. This is too big a financial decision not to involve Congress. The current student loan program was authorized by Congress and contains no such authority to the president.
Biden is openly flouting the Supreme court, another dangerous precedent.
Free money is highly inflationary.
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Addendum
I left out a key point. . As a Senator Biden sponsored a law that made it so student debt could not be discharged in bankruptcy.
Then he was buying donations from the big banks who run their credit card operations out of Delaware. Now he is buying votes."
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That's why I have called the lying sack of fertilzer Buydem since 2020.
Take him and all his administration staff to Gitmo for an interview. Then a military trial for treason and public execution of all the guilty, and a reversal of everything done by the tyrannical scum since 2000.
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I am a US ARMY vet and have worked in education since 2002. The PSLF (Public Student Loan Forgiveness) program was started in October 2007. I graduated with my MS in December of 2007 and have been enrolled in the PSLF program since January 2008. I have been continuously employed in Public Service positions since August 2002. Therefore, I should have been earning months towards my forgiveness this entire time or 197 months not counting the current month of June 2024. The PSLF program promises forgiveness after 120 months, so I should have been "forgiven" long ago. Yet, they keep shifting my loans from one servicer to another always promising to get it straightened out 6 or 9 months from now. Moreover they also only have my month count at 99 months. Though the most recent story is that they are going to have it all adjusted by July of 24 and that they will be adding 36 months to everyone's count.
Oh BTW, I got fed up with the entire educational system and decided that since I have met the minimums for retirement, that I will retire. So now any months going forward do not count towards PSLF. So I met the expectation and did the time with Public Service but there is no end in sight.
I see all these headlines about Student Loan forgiveness but from where I am it seems to be all smoke and mirrors with no substance. Just to be clear my degrees are all in computers with my final degree being an MS in Management Information Systems.
Trump can un-forgive them
or else he needs to end federal involvement in student loans